Car-coupling



(No Model.)

B. M. GHESNBY.

GAR GOUPLING.

No. 439,269. Patented oct. 28, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

EZEKIEL M. CHESNEY, OF SISTERSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,269, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed August 9, 1890. Serial No. 361,554. (No model.) I

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZEKIEL M. CHEsNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sistersville, in the county of Tyler and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and useful Car-Coupling, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car-couplings, and more especially to that class thereof known as pin-litters, and the object of the same is to eifect improvements upon car-couplings of this class heretofore existing.

To this end the invention consists in the specific details of construction more fully described hereinafter, illustrated in the accompanyin g drawings, and pointed out in the claims.

. In the said drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of this improved car-coupling with a link in the draw-head thereof. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section.

Referring to the said drawings, the letter D designates the draw-head, which may be of the ordinary or any preferred construction, and within this draw-head is a block B,pressed normally forward by a spring S. 'The pin P passes vertically through the draw-head and is supported upon the top of the block B when the same is in its forward position. lVhen the link of another coupling enters this draw-head, the block B is driven to the rear and the pin P allowed to descend through the link in a manner well known to experts in this class of inventions, and unnecessary of fuller explanation here.

Upon the upper side of the draw-head is an enlargement E, in which the pin is supported when it is elevated, and journaled horizontally through this enlargement is an oscillating shaft O, having hand-wheels 7L on its ends, which can be operated from the sides of the car. Connected to this shaft at each end of the enlargement E is a link-lifter Q, composed of stout wire, which passes over the front end of the draw-head through a retaining-loop R, and is open, so as to receive the link. By tu rning one of the hand-wheels h the link L may be lifted, so as to guide it into the mouth of another draw-head, and the loop R prevents the lifter Q becoming displaced.

F is a frame-work projecting from the top of the end of a freight-car, and cords or chains C are led from the upper end of the pin P over pulleys 'or wheels W beneath the center and near each end of the front bar of this frame-work, down the sides of the car, through staples or eyes I therein, to handles H, with which their ends are provided. Another cord C is led from the upper end of the pin P through similar staples I in t-he end of Vthe car, through the frame-work F, to a handle H at the top of the same, and by pulling down on the handle at the sides of the car or upwardly upon that on the top of the framework the pin can be raised to disengage thev in, and having handles H at their ends, and Y a cord C, leading upwardly from said pin, through eyes I in the end of the car, through said frame-work, and having a handle H above the same, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The herein-described car-coupling, the same comprising a draw-head D, having an enlargement E upon its upper side at its front end, a coupling-pin P, moving vertically through said enlargement and across the mouth of the draw-head, a transverse shaft O, journaled through said enlargement and having handwheels h at its ends, alinklifter Q, connected to said shaft and passing over the front end of the draw-head around the link, and a retaining-loop R on the drawhead above said lifter, as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony that I claimy the foregoing as 4 

